Kostadin Bonev made his debut in documentary cinema in 1984. He has been awarded a lot of national and international prizes, among them Grand Prix “Centaur” in 1995 for “Letters to the Nether World”, Prix Europa Willy Brandt Prize for “The Patience of the Stone”, the Special Prize of the Jury in Munich for the same film, the Special Prize of the Film Concern Mosfilm for “War Correspondent”, etc. Winner of Golden Rhyton Grand Prix for "Europolis, The town of the Delta" and Golden Chest Grand Prix for "The Man who became a Picture"   Five of his films have won the Award of the film critics at the festivals of the Bulgarian documentary and feature film “. He has been awarded three times The Prize for the Best Film Director at the Annual Awards of the Bulgarian Association of Filmmakers for the documentaries “Under a Cloud”, “The Patience of the Stone” and TV Feature "War Correspondent" .
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FEATURES

 2008   War Correspondent – 89 min.

Sofia Film Fest’2008 – Audience award “Silver Seagull”

Moscow’2008 – Golden Knight Film Festival - Bronze Knight

Plovdiv’2008 – Golden Chest Film Festival – Special prize of MOSFILM Film Company

Volokolamsk’2008 Russia – Best actress – Irini Zhambonas

XXVIII  National Festival of Bulgarian Feature Film Golden Rose’ 2008 – Best new actor  - Penko Gospodinov

Annual awards of the Bulgarian Association of Filmmakers and Bulgarian Film Center’2008 - Best TV Feature, Best Supporting Actress - Gergana Pletnjova, Best Sound - Valentin Kirilov, Best Costumes - Borjana Semerdjieva

Beijing'09 - 2nd Annual European Union Film Festival

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 2002  Warming Up Yesterday’s Lunch – 98 min.

Bulgarian nomination for OSCAR’2002 in the Foreign Language Film category

XXV National Festival of Bulgarian Feature Film Golden Rose’ 2002: Special Jury prize, Best Script – Mile Nedelkovski, Best actress – Svetlana Yancheva, Prize of the Ministry of culture for best new actress – Biliana Kazakova, Prize of the Ministry of culture for director’s debut – Kostadin Bonev

Annual awards of the Bulgarian Association of Filmmakers’2003: Best actress – Svetlana Yancheva , Best set designer – Georgi Todorov

The film participated in festivals: Moscow’2003 – Official Selection,  Karlovy  Vary’2003  –  East of the West  Program, Palm Springs’2003 – Oscar foreign language submissions, Montreal’2003; Pussan’2003, Qwebec city’2003; Calgary’2003; Hamburg’2003; Umea’2003; Mumbai’2003; Roma’2004, Berlin Black Box Festival 2005,  Lodz’2005

The film was presented in Days of Bulgarian Cinema in Washington D.C., New York, Budapest, Zagreb, Warsaw and Bratislava

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DOCUMENARIES

2010  Classification of the memories - 82 min.

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2009  EUROPLIS: The town of the Delta – 80 min.

GOLDEN RHYTON Grand Prix for Best Bulgarian Documentary - Plovdiv'09; OFFICIAL BEST OF FEST WINNER - Seattle'2010,  DIE NEUE HEIMATFILM FESTIVAL   '2010 - Freistadt, Austria - Best Documentary Grand Prize; Los Angeles'09 - LOS ANGELES REEL FILM FESTIVAL - Honorable Mention; Nominees: Best Feature Documentary, Best Feature Documentary Director, Best Feature Documentary Concept, Best Feature Documentary Cinematography, Best Feature Documentary Editing, Best Feature Documentary Original Score; GOLDEN KNIGHT - Moscow'2010 - Best Script

Sofia Film fest'09 - Documentary Gala, Yerevan Film Fest'09 - Directors across borders Program, RoIFF - Arad'09 - Mein Program, Planet Doc Review - Warsaw'2010 - Mein Program

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2004  The Man Who Became a Picture - 29 min.

Grand Prix Golden Chest – Int. TV film festival – Plovdiv’2004

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1999   1 9 3 4 – 64 min.

Annual awards of the Bulgarian Association of Filmmakers’2000: Best Script ; Best Cinematographer

National non-fiction festival – Plovdiv’99: Award of the critics

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1998 The Patience of the Stone  - 50 min.

Prix Europa Willy  Brandt Prize  Berlin’98

Special Prize of the Jury   Munich’99

Silver Knight Prize  Kiev’98

Annual awards of the Bulgarian Association of Filmmakers for Best Documentary and  Best Cinematographer

National non-fiction festival – Plovdiv’98: Award of the critics; Best Cinematographer; Best Producer; Award of the Artists of Plovdiv

The film participated in festivals  Kiev’98; Berlin’98; Lissboa’98; Munich’99; Taipei’2000; Margaret Mead Film Festival, New York’2000; Jihlava’2000; Belgrad’2001.

The film was presented in Days of Bulgarian Cinema in USA’99 and Canada’2001

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1997   Under a Cloud -  92 min.

Annual awards of the Bulgarian Association of Filmmakers for Best Director and  Best Cinematographer

National non-fiction festival – Plovdiv’98: Award of the critics

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 1994  Letters to the Nether World - 35 min.

Prix Centaur for Best Documentary - St.Petersburg’95

National non-fiction festival – Varna’94: Award of the critics; Award of the National Film Library

The film participated in festivals   St.Petersburg’95; Leipzig’95; Namur’95; Gyor’96; Drama’96

The film was presented in Days of Bulgarian Cinema in New York’95, Helsinki’96; Riga’96; Belgrad’2001

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 1991 Dream Hunters /A Documentary about Balkan Naïve Artists/ - 96 min.

Festival of Slavonic Cinema – Tiraspol’93: Special Mention

The IMF Visitors’ Center, Washington D.C.  – January’94